50, 52 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Classical tenement. 2 related planning applications.

50, 52 George Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quartered-portal-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 January 1966
Type
Classical tenement
Address
50, 52 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LE
OS grid reference
NT 252 739
Coordinates
55.9531, -3.19836
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 and 52 George Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building dating from around 1775, with later alterations made at the ground level. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features five bays, arranged in a 4-1 pattern. The exterior is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The left side has channelled quoins, while the right side has rusticated quoins, and there is an eaves cornice. The ground level features a dentilled cornice, with a central panelled door leading to the upper floors, topped by a rectangular plate glass fanlight. This door is flanked by later 19th-century canted shopfronts, which have undergone significant alterations. To the left, there are two earlier 19th-century canted dormers with piend roofs.

The western elevation is a rubble return with a rebuilt rendered nepus gable and an applied stack. The rear elevation is also rubble, featuring a projecting gable and a Venetian window in the western bay, along with an apex stack.

The building has timber 12-pane sash and case windows, and the roof is piended to the west, covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

50, 52 George Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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